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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Today Courage Wisdom. Suffer
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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

Right Carry Weapon Purpose
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The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.

Government Choice Worthwhile Art
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

Communist Sense Science Innocent
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

Understand Newspaper People Challenge
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

Green Policy Triggering Cleaner
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

Tax Old Banger Hell
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Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

Time Come Been Winning
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

Teenagers Surveys Logos Staggering
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

School Teach Children Basic Skills
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

Perhaps Generate Plastic Society
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

Online Years Uploading Archive
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

London North America Half
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Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Prayer Received Believe Ask
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Auto-pay is not for convenience; it's for the gainfully employed.

Gainfully Convenience Employed Auto-pay
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
Good Work Parents Influence
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For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'

Me You Ready People
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

Pound Energy Seven Solution
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.

System Climate Change Abstract
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Capacity Passenger Fly London
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

Flights Preserve Hearthrows Hub
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Big Business Political Access
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Career Private Life Eye
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Horse Races Take Lonely
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Movies Tend Aesthetic Story
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May books spread the world over!

May Books Spread World
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Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

Young Fight Create Immigrant
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Software Microsoft Successful Forward
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We didn't grow up with TV as a viable means of supporting yourself.

Viable Grow Beautiful Support
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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Exposure Young Age Realities World
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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.
Career Advancing Emotional Dating
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Smartest People World Mistakes
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Face Fears Doubts Worlds
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money Problem Rich Reinvest
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

School Write Flunked Correct
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship Growth Plant Adversity
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